{"id":1918,"date":"2010-04-01T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2010-04-01T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T10:08:40","slug":"the_14000th_cover_of_an_immort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/01\/the_14000th_cover_of_an_immort\/","title":{"rendered":"The 14,000th Cover of an Immortal Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Muppets strike again with their latest viral music vid:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zCRUPWDIgYM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zCRUPWDIgYM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this one is quite as funny as that insane version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY\">Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a>&#8221; or the Beaker video I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2010\/02\/back_on_the_air.html\">posted<\/a> a while back, but it&#8217;s a welcome throwback to the violent, early incarnation of the Muppets that was seen on <i>The Tonight Show<\/i> and <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>, among others, before they were domesticated (i.e., sanitized) and came to be thought of as kids-only fare. As I&#8217;ve said before, I think Jim Henson would be tickled by these new virals that are working so hard to recapture the wild, subversive energy his creations used to have. I know I am.<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned, incidentally, that &#8220;Stand by Me&#8221; is one of my all-time favorite songs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muppets strike again with their latest viral music vid: I don&#8217;t think this one is quite as funny as that insane version of &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221; or the Beaker video I posted a while back, but it&#8217;s a welcome throwback to the violent, early incarnation of the Muppets that was seen on The Tonight Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}